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The 40th Annual Annie Awards have revealed which names from the toon biz will be hosting honors at the awards ceremony on Saturday, February 2 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. The lucky fellows are former Annie Awards host and movie reviewer Leonard Maltin, and voice actors Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche. [...]

Children’s programming portal Toon Goggles and Emmy-winning software producer Toon Boom Animation have launched Boom Goggles, a new creative app that allows children to create and share animated clips. In addition to the free version of the app, the Google Play Store offers a premium version—for $2.99—which has more templates [...]

The 40th Annie Award nominations were announced this morning (Dec. 3) and it looks like ASIFA voters decided to spread the wealth among many of this year’s animated features and TV shows. In the crowded Best Animated Feature category, eight pictures—Pixar’s Brave, Disney’s Frankenweenie and Wreck-It Ralph, Sony Animaton’s Hotel [...]

Leading animation software company Toon Boom and iheed Institute are launching iheedCrowd an online, platform where digital designers have the opportunity to create the next generation of health education content. Developed by the iheed Institute, iheedCrowd brings together for the first time, digital designers who can, via animation, change the field [...]

Los Angeles-based Toon Goggles continues to build its children’s animation library and expanding its global multiplatform reach. It seems that for the past few months, online kids platform Toon Goggles has been snapping up new partners and expanding its tablet reach almost every week. A few weeks ago, the Los [...]

Toon Boom Animation and Bento Box Entertainment have created an exclusive and state-of-the-art digital animation production pipeline uniquely designed for Bento Box’s production on prime-time animated television series, among them Bob’s Burgers, Allen Gregory, and the upcoming new series Brickleberry, Out There, and The Awesomes. The all-digital global workflow will [...]

We had plenty of sunshine and lots of inspiring panels on the first two days of the Ottawa International Animation Festival and the TV Animation Conference (TAC) held this week in the charming capital city in Ontario, Canada. On Wednesday morning (September 19), Moira Marguin, head of animation at the [...]

Montreal based animation software studio Toon Boom recently received the prestigious Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Entrepreneurial Company of the Year. Toon Boom has shown remarkable entrepreneurial spirit, rapidly gaining a strong foothold through product innovation, marketing and the implementation of a well-rounded strategy in a very competitive market, [...]

The Art Institute of California – Los Angeles, an educational institution for career preparation in the visual and culinary arts, announces its inaugural animation event, the Ollies Animation Festival. The event, which is named after animation legend Ollie Johnson, will showcase work from aspiring filmmakers, industry professionals and animation legends. [...]


The new animated Star Wars Rebels series will premiere in the fall of 2104 as a...

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has...

The Eisner Award-winning comic-book series by Joe Quesada, Paul Jenkins, Bill...

